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How women entered the workplace in ever increasing numbers during the Second World War. Read by Fenella Woolgar.

Virginia Nicholson's evocative account of the Second World War is told through a multitude of individual women's experiences.

As their stories unfold we discover how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared.

And how women entered the workplace in ever-increasing numbers.

Abridged by Doreen Estall.

Read by Fenella Woolgar.

Producer: Elizabeth Allard.

First broadcast on 91福利社 Radio 4 in May 2011.

15 minutes

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Thu 8 May 2025 03:30
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  • Wed 4 May 2011 09:45
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  • Thu 5 May 2011 00:30
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  • Wed 7 May 2025 08:30
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